To find yourself, think for yourself.
SOCRATESTo move the world we must move ourselves.
More Socrates Quotes
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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